During the summer 2006 we will drill an ice core through the small Flade Isblink ice cap in northeastern Greenland. It is so far not known whether the ice cap contains ice age ice, or whether it melted away during the climatic optimum 8,000 to 4,000 years ago. The ice core will hopefully give information on the climate history of this scarcely investigated part of Greenland, the Polar Ocean and the sea ice.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Tuesday, 20th/21th June: 300 m depth passed.

The ice core from 300m depth

Once again a warm, sunny day. In the 'morning' at 6 PM, when we begin our work in the drill tent, temperatures are just at the freezing point. When we cut the ice with the saw, we produce water instead of ice chips, and our samples stick to the processing table. After a couple of hours it gets cooler and for the rest of the day it is -2 to -3 C in the tent. When we end our working day in the 'evening'at 10 AM it's melting point temperatures again.

Tha cable spooling on our winch is now so bad that we have decided to cut away 250 m off the length. Steff and Sverir did so, and after dinner we started to drill again.

While the winch was being repaired Lars, Bo and Namcy went 1.3 km North of camp to perform a 2.8 m pit study. they took 5 cm profiles for chemistry and sotopes.

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